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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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Attention Capability Prayer Simplicity Soul
The world is God’s language to us.
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God Language One Liner World
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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Beautiful Forever Nature
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself

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